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National Security Files

6/19/1963
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National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam,6/63. Box 2

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COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM . REPORT NO. TDCS - -3/550,953
| SUBJECT GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM WHITE PAPER ON THE DATE DISTR. 19 suNe 1963
: BUDDHIST 1SSUE AND AMERICAN PRESENCE AND ;
POLICY IN SOUTH VIETNAM PRECEDENCE PRIORITY
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PLACES = vieTNAM, SAIGON (17 yuNeE 1 6
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APPRAISAL 3 rieup report NO. FYS 9171

. THIS 1s UNEVAL UATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,

SOURCE a WESTERN BUSINESSMAN (8) WITH CONTACTS IN PRESS AND POLITICAL CIRCLES.

1, ON 17 JUNE 1963 GENE GREGORY OF THE TIMES OF VIETNAM SAID
THAT HE HAD JUST RETUNED FROM DALAT WHERE HE HAD SPENT FIVE
DAYS WORKING ON A WHITE PAPER SETTING FORTH THE GOVERNMENT
OF VIETNAM POSITON NOT ONLY ON THE BUDDHIST ISSUE BUT ALSO
ON THE ENTIRE QUESTION OF AMERICAN PRESENCE AND POLICY IN >
SOUTH VIETNAM. GREGORY SAID THAT MADAME NGO DINH NHU HAD .
ASKED HIM TO, PREPARE THE PAPER AND, iN FACT, HE LIVED IN THE NHU

VILLA IN DALAT WHILE HE WORKED ON IT.

26 GREGORY SAID THAT ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL POINTS WHICH MADAME

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} NHU SUGGESTED BE INCLUDED IN THE PAPER WAS A COMPAR | SON OF SOUTH VIETNAM
WITH THE UNITED STATES WHERE GANGSTERISM AND RACE RIOTS EXISTED,
. THE CONCLUSION BEING THAT THE DIEM REGIME WAS NOT REALLY TOO BAD
AFTER ALL. |
3. GREGORY STATED THAT THE WHITE PAPER CONSISTED « OF OVER TWENTY .
PAGES, WAS NOT FOR LOCAL CONSUMPTION, SUT WILL BE DISTRIBUTED
“INTERNATIONALLY, DIRECTED PRIMARILY AT THE UNITED STATES BUT POSSIBLY”
ALSO FRANCE AND ENGLAND. .
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